Annenberg Public Policy Center

Research center warns of holiday suicide myth

A report from Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues demonstrates that rates of suicide actually decrease during the holidays.

Study: 2017 rise in teen suicide rates due to seasonal shifts, not ‘13 Reasons Why’

A paper by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center found a seasonal pattern to teen suicide rates that seems to coincide with the school year, declining in the summer months.

Holiday suicide myth debunked

Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the commonly shared link between Christmastime and suicides is a false and dangerous myth.

Flunking social studies is how America got the Big Lie and QAnon. Don’t make it worse

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that reduced time in the classroom for teaching civics will come back to haunt America’s future politics.

Myth that suicides peak during the holidays could cause harm

A study by Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and colleagues found that 56% of stories published last year perpetuated the false connection between the holidays and suicide.

Penn study debunks myth about increased suicide during holidays

Dan Romer discusses the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s recent study noting the frequency of false reports that suicides increase around the holidays.

Building and sustaining public trust in science

For “Washington Post Live,” Francis Collins quotes Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center as saying that all of the most significant COVID misinformation campaigns were predictable and could have been “pre-bunked.”

Suicide doesn’t increase during the holidays, but the media perpetuates that myth, new Penn study finds

An analysis from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more than half of media references to the “holiday-suicide myth” last year failed to debunk it, with quotes from Dan Romer.

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Pre-pandemic conspiratorial mindset predicted hesitance to accept COVID-19 vaccine

A new study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that people who evinced a conspiracy mentality in 2019, prior to the pandemic, were subsequently more likely to believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories.

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What U.S. adults know and believe about polio and the bivalent COVID booster

A new survey finds that while Americans say they do not have concerns about the safety or effectiveness of the bivalent COVID booster, they show much less acceptance of it than the vaccines against polio or monkeypox.

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